It’s easy to put the Ann Telnaes / Sen. Ted Cruz dispute into the neat little pre-packaged Republican or Democratic argument. Here it was, an edgy if provocative cartoon writer depicting Ted Cruz’s children as monkeys in a Washington Post piece that has since been removed. Obviously that is despicable regardless of political affiliation and a violation of long-standing unwritten rule, but perhaps the more interesting question is regarding boundaries. Telnaes breaks unwritten rule, but will she evenly apply it across the board? There is an unwritten rule in politics that a political leader’s young children are off limits as…
Silence From Cartoonist Ann Telnaes After She Goes After Cruz Kids
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.
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